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Senator mark udall surely knows who todd akin is and put out a few official campaign ads framing corey gardner on these womens issues. heres one example. >> because this really matters, its important you hear this directly from me. my opponent, congressman gardner, led a crusade that would make birth control illegal. and sponsored a bill to make abortion a felony. even in cases of rape and incest. his record is beyond troubling. its wrong. were talking about your rights as women, as families, as...

Or high blood pressure before taking breo. ask your doctor about b-r-e-o for copd. first prescription free at mybreo.com you know whos not a u.s. senator? this guy. >> it seems to me first of all from what i understand from doctors thats really rare, if its a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> todd akin, u.s. congressman from missouri who challenged claire mccaskill for her seat in 2012. he might have won it until that statement there about rape ...

Something called, quote, forcible rape, a dubious term which served mainly to make him and his fellow 226 co-sponsors seem as anti-abortion as possible. one of his cosponsors who tried to define sexual assault for everyone else was another congressman named cory gardner. now he is the gop candidate running for senate against incumbent democrat mark udall. he co-sponsored a total ban on abortion with no exceptions in the case of rape or incest. it was a bill that would have put doctors in prison ...

Already put out a few campaign ads framing cory gardner on these issues. >> because this really matters, its important you hear this directly from me. my opponent, congressman gardner, made a crusade that would make birth control illegal and sponsored a bill to make abortion a felony, even in the case of rape and incest. his record is beyond troubling. its wrong. were talking about your rights, as women, as families, as coloradans. im mark udall. you have the right to live life on your own terms...

Legislation says the age of a child is enough to call rape. what century we came from is -- >> thats it. forcible rape, please. that was so -- so 80s. mark, thank you. well watch the case -- >> 1780s. 1780s. >> there you have. it glad you cleared that up. this will go on as the protests continue. nice to see you. thank you. happening right now across the country, workers are walking off the job. [ chanting ] >> fast food workers are demanding more money for their hard work in the $200 billion ...

Road. republicans for planned parenthood is growing by leaps and bounds. folks feel like the republican party historically had a very conservative position about government, that it doesnt belong in peoples personal lives, and i think a lot of planned parenthoods were started by republicans. the goldwaters back in arizona. i think this republican ticket and frankly this republican congress does not look like what we think of as traditional republicans. >> well, it will be interesting to see what...

There was than rape. thats what he is denying what he said before. he wasnt apologizing for what he said. hes not even admitting what he said. your thoughts. >> nor did he apologize for the warped notions of his physiology and biology of women. what bothers a lot of people like me in the party is we can nominate a guy like this in the first place. how do we -- >> what about ryan? is he any different than this guy except in his charm perhaps, more charming guy? you heard him on the plane ride the...

The issue of rape as a human, as a christian, its hard for me to ascribe that view to a group of people whom i dont think all have come out to say theyre against todd akin. >> but there was a platform -- an effort to try to distinguish between forcible rape and nonforcible rape and one of the people who tried to do that distinction -- >> forgive me im not aware of that in their platform or statements in the congress. >> its not in the platform but a bill pushed by among other people paul ryan an...

Conceivable we can have a vice presidential debate in which moderator martha radditz does not ask paul ryan the question, what is forcible rape? >> ill tell you, lawrence, its conceivable, but that really shouldnt happen. if youre going to hang your hat on this construction of forcible rape, and as you pointed out, akin and ryan are pretty much lockstep on these issues, time and time again, in the legislation that they have jointly supported together and the positions that theyve espoused. and a...

To have. yesterday he pushed a message his campaign has already been running with in ads. >> although these particular comments have led governor romney and other politicians to distance themselves, the notion that we should be making decisions for women for their health care decisions or qualifying forcible rape versus nonforcible rape, i think those are broader issues. >> the bill, forcible rape, in reference to a house bill that ryan cosponsored. romneys running mate is making trouble for him...